"Lil mama I'm leavin the club/ I was wondering if you were up/ for a late night rendezvous/ if you are, then I'm comin through...." -Carl ThomasAhhhhhh......The Club. I can't think of any other establishment in society that has led to more niggas goin home sweaty and dollarless with broken dreams....(well, maybe The Church, but that's another topic...)
When cats make songs for The Club, they're usually of a celebratory nature. I always wondered why nobody ever talked about the other side of club life and how depressing and addictive it can be. Like any addiction, there's a high....but there's also a low once you realize that the party is indeed over and you are, once again, alone.
"After the Party" was written as a companion piece to "Life of the Party." This is why my verse starts off with 'the milk's gone bad, the bees flew south' as a direct response to LOTP's 'I'm the cow's milk, I'm the bee's knees.' Being that Carlitta did such an incredible job with LOTP, I thought it would be a nice touch to bring her back to sing the hook on 'After the Party' as well. On LOTP, her voice was stacked to give it a loud and festive feel, but on this one I kept her single tracked to symbolize the theme of loneliness (originally, I was gonna call this joint 'Death of the Party,' but thought it woulda been too morbid...and too obvious).
Me and Pooh are proud of the entire Getback album, but I must say that through it all, this one has emerged as one of my favorite LB songs of all time. I rate LB joints on an intent vs. outcome scale....meaning, that if we made a joint intending to give niggas the screwface and they hear it and be like, 'ahhhh, this joint is so pretty,' then we failed. Judging from the crowd response we get from performing this one at shows, I'd say that we hit this joint dead on. It has a really beautiful and melancholy quality that everyone seems to be able to relate to. Also, Pooh, Khrysis, and Carlitta all showed they EN-tire asses (c) Della Reese
We didn't save many outtakes on this one, so this mix isn't too different from the album version. (A shame, because there were several hilarious variations of Khrysis' "the big ole ass...the BIG ole ass" comment). This mix was one that me and Khrysis did out of fear that people wouldn't be able to decipher the 'ha ha ha, and the jokes on you' line. After listening though, we decided that it killed the groove and we'd be better off rolling with the version that you now hear on the album.
Young Fredrick gives us the science below:
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